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General Motors Co., the largest carmaker in the U.S., is shifting its center of gravity to China, where it sells more cars and now invests more money.
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BYD Co., the Chinese automaker partially owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is preparing to make electric buses in California as the company seeks to bolster its visibility in the U.S.
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Nissan Motor Co., with U.S. sales lagging the industry’s rebound this year, said it hired a former Chrysler Group LLC executive to run its namesake brand in the country after the departure of a long-time sales official.
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The possible bankruptcy of Fisker Automotive Inc., which last week fired three-quarters of its workforce, is the latest blow to President Barack Obama’s goal of having 1 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.
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At his Houston Cadillac store last weekend, Carl Sewell had an unusual experience: He helped a mother secure a baby seat into a car she was considering. Young- shopper sightings were once a rarity for Sewell.
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Chrysler Group LLC is bringing back the Cherokee, the model that helped usher in the age of the sport-utility vehicle, with a design that’s testing the devotion of the Jeep faithful.
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Volkswagen AG’s Audi brand, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, are expanding diesel lineups in the U.S. as consumers are drawn by the performance and as a way to counter rising gasoline prices.
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Acura’s future was so dire four years ago that Honda Motor Co. began killing models and choking off product development. Now, Honda is putting $1 billion into its luxury brand, a perennial also-ran to Toyota Motor Corp.’s Lexus line.
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Ford Motor Co.’s Lincoln brand, which aired two ads during the Super Bowl in February, posted a 29 percent U.S. sales slide for the month as dealers continued to run short of the MKZ sedan featured in the commercials.
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s BMW sales surged 39 percent in the U.S. in December to top Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz in luxury-auto deliveries for the year as U.S. light-vehicle sales reached the highest level since 2007.
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